Adopt hybrid retrieval (context architecture) instead of vanilla RAG for agentic use cases
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The 2026 practitioner consensus (Karpathy, Zep, Mem0, arXiv) is that vanilla similarity-search RAG fails for agentic workloads; buyer intent for hybrid retrieval tripled from 10.3% to 33.3% between January and March 2026. Replace single-vector lookup with a context-architecture layer that fuses graph, episodic, and vector memory and reorganizes between sessions.